--- title: Sheep flock together for safety, a sheepdog moves them like a wolf w… — Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat · tree and pragmatics description: Sheep flock together for safety, a sheepdog moves them like a wolf would, the shepherd directs the dog with whistles, and sheep are sheared about once a year, so their fleece can be spun into wool and they stay cool in summer. Who acts: Sheep, sheepdog, shepherd, microbes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sheep, sheepdog, shepherd, microbes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.lesson:14 # text = Sheep flock together for safety, a sheepdog moves them like a wolf would, the shepherd directs the dog with whistles, and sheep are sheared about once a year, so their fleece can be spun into wool and they stay cool in summer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound 2 flock flock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 together together ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sheepdog sheepdog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 like like SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 directs direct VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 whistles whistle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 sheared shear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 27 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 fleece fleece NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 spun spin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 parataxis _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 44 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:obl 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flock together** | present | Sheep | | | | | for safety; together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **move** | present | a sheepdog | microbes *= microbe* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **direct** | present | the shepherd | the dog | | | | with whistles | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | | 4 | **shear** | present · passive | | sheep | | | | once *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **spin** | can · passive | | microbes's fleece | | wool | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into wool=Trajectory | | 6 | **stay** | present | microbes *= microbe* | | | | summer | cool *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.lesson:14`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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